How does donating cord blood work?

It’s a simple, safe, and swift procedure. Once your baby has been safely born, vaginally or by caesarean, the umbilical cord will be clamped as normal. Once the placenta has been delivered, one of our cord collectors will take your cord and placenta to a separate room to extract the blood.

We’ll then transport the cord blood to our Cell Therapy Centre in Nottingham, make sure it’s suitable for transplant, and freeze it in our cord bank until it’s needed.